This book explores five novels of Margaret Atwood namely The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man and Bodily Harm. Her novels deal with women’s experience in a male-dominated culture and portray women snaffled in tyrannical conventional images from which some women fight to make a place for themselves. This may be put into effect through self-direction of thought, through self-definition and self-reconstruction of one’s own history, through bonding with society and through a refusal to the role of subjugation. This study comprises of seven chapters and concentrates on the behavioural changes of the protagonists and their struggle to find the real meaning of the existence. Her protagonists are impelled by intra-psychic and inter personal conflicts and are haunted with some kind of fear which leads them either to hide their identity or to adopt double identity so as to elude reality. All of them are self-alienated but have an evolutionary constructive force which inspires them to strive for self-realisation. To analyse women in their socio-cultural context and their psychological problems, psychoanalytic social theory becomes an essential tool. It also helps to delve deeper and to understand more about their behavioural and psychological changes. With the help of this theory an individual can grow towards self-realisation. Margaret Atwood’s protagonists achieve successful metamorphosis of their personality through right perception towards life and they become strong, resolved and are ready for the self-actualisation. This book is extremely useful for the teachers, students and research scholars who are interested in Canadian Literature, Women Studies and Literary Criticism.

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